Excel Twitters 20091216

What kind of music do you listen to while you work in Excel? Today’s tweets show a wide variety of musical tastes, including Beach Boys, Anthrax and Jay-Z.

And I agree with the tweet about old code – it’s rarely beautiful to revisit. You usually think of a dozen ways you could have done it better.

Greatest Hits

• On deck: Mos Def, Miike Snow & Monsters of Folk. This is my 2nd favorite part of crazy spreadsheeting days. 1st is the pure joy of Excel.
• Beach Boys Greatest Hits and excel spreadsheets….my kind of afternoon
• Bobbing my head to Jay-z, while writing a macro that will consoidate excel file into one big daddy file.
• modeling in excel while listening to old Anthrax….so satisfying.
• Spending some quality time with Excel and the Bladerunner soundtrack. I love my job.
• CHRISTMAS STATION ON PANDORA!!! You are making me not hate this excel workbook, like, at all.

Aging Gracefully

• Also geeky> Counting the days I’ve gone working happily without opening Word or Excel, (excluding reading docs others send me) Tally: 26
• just remind yourself that Excel is nearly 25 years old. And looks like an aged Hollywood starlet after too many facelifts.
• Documenting my extremely ugly Excel-based build system. One year old code is not beautiful to look at again! #uglyhack
• Updating my seven-year-old Excel file with my latest work experience. It’s a bittersweet spreadsheet. The jobs I loved couldn’t last.

What a Tool

• Ban Excel from all planning meetings. It’s a weapon, not a tool. Make people think and plan first – then add the numbers at the very end.
• is developin a best lottery numbers selection tool on the excel… started as simple but is turning into complicated program… it is workin
• Q: Why does everyone keep talking about Excel? Goble: It’s the tool many use, so they are designing tools round extracting from it
• Between a crap bug tracking tool and an unmaintained excel spreadsheet, i’m really unhappy with our bug reporting strategy…

All Good Things

• ah, yeah it’s tough to beat Excel. The only good thing Microsoft has created. And is systematically ruining.

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P.S. To create a playlist from your MP3 files you can download the free Excel Music Playlist Creator, by Dave Peterson.

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